Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Civil Servants
(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in 2025 how many full-time equivalent civil servants in her Department focused on farming policy.
Answered by
Stephen Morgan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 9th September 2026
In 2025 Core Defra had 234 FTE working on farming policy directly. Farming benefits from wider Defra policies and activities where other staff in the Department would contribute.